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Rosenthal and Stiel ignited newspapers on top of a beer keg in order to "free the lavaratory of odor," then extinguished the blaze and left for Philadelphia to broadcast the Harvard Pennsylvania football game for the campus radio station Johnson said...

Author: By Mary K. Warren, | Title: Winthrop Seniors Gain Reprieve From Ad. Board | 12/7/1984 | See Source »

...fire] wasn't even a plank, they were trying to eliminate an odor," Scott said...

Author: By Mary K. Warren, | Title: Winthrop Seniors Gain Reprieve From Ad. Board | 12/7/1984 | See Source »

Paul M. Connor of the company's Health, Safety and Toxicology Department said that napthalene, the main ingredient in moth balls, did not cause cancer and that the dump contained a small enough quantity of the chemical so that the only adverse effect might be the odor...

Author: By Joseph Menn, | Title: Residents Demand Testing of Chemical Dump | 11/27/1984 | See Source »

...then drive to Florida for two improbable plot twists. There are only 67 shots, each separated from the next by a few seconds of blackness, and three funny bits. Artfully done, with offhand references to directors ranging from Byron Haskin to Yasujiro Ozu, Stranger Than Paradise has the odd odor of something left too long behind Aunt Bela's chintz couch. Yet it has been extravagantly praised and is a box-office success in its Manhattan debut. Rarely has a movie so fetid been so feted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rushes: Nov. 5, 1984 | 11/5/1984 | See Source »

...police guard, detectives were following up clues, and bomb experts were sifting through the ruins of the Grand Hotel. Their efforts yielded what Commander Bill Hucklesby, head of Scotland Yard's antiterrorist branch, called "significant items." Police theorize that the bomb, possibly wrapped in plastic to hide its odor from police dogs, was planted behind a panel in a bathroom of the hotel by I.R.A. "sleeper agents" long resident in England. The device was apparently detonated by a sophisticated microchip timer that could have been preset weeks earlier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: Delayed Shock | 10/29/1984 | See Source »

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